Italy vs South Korea: Democracy

Italy

in 2025

South Korea

in 2025

Italy rank

1st

South Korea rank

1st

Democracy over time

Italy
South Korea

How they compare

Italy currently reports 3 against 3 in South Korea, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 211 shared years of data; in 1815 it was South Korea ahead.

Italy ranks 1st and South Korea ranks 1st of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Italy
Democracy in South Korea
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Democracy
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 29,594 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Identifies the political regime of a country by distinguishing between closed autocracies, electoral autocracies, electoral democracies, and liberal democracies.